Software Engineer, Life Sciences

The role

You will design backend services, APIs, and interfaces to connect scientists with AI capabilities and laboratory workflows. You will work across the stack to build products that help scientists accelerate research.

What you will do

• Design backend services, APIs, and integrations that connect users with models, scientific tools, and laboratory services.
• Create intuitive interfaces that help scientists navigate complex workflows.
• Own projects from problem definition and technical design through launch, operation, and iteration.
• Work with scientific and research partners to identify user needs and prioritize product improvements.
• Partner with infrastructure engineers on performance, reliability, and scaling.
• Make engineering decisions balancing speed, quality, and long-term maintainability.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals
• Depth in backend development
• Ability to build across the stack
• Experience shipping and operating products used by large user bases

Nice to have

• Life sciences experience
• Building AI applications, model-serving integrations, or inference platforms
• Developing marketplaces or products that coordinate services and complex workflows
• Taking new products from early concepts through launch and adoption
• Working with scientific tools, research data, or laboratory systems

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.